The Rules of the Game

on. But he was strong and determined. He remembered Fatty Hayes, who took four years to make the team--Fatty, who couldn't get a signal through his head until about time for the next play, and

good centre, not brilliant

buyers the country over were finishing their contracts. Collins, his coat off, his sleeve protectors strapped closely about his thin arms, worked at an intense white heat. He wasted no

ned from a swift contemp

said he

led himself f

inting a long and nervous finger at t

r inspection the original sealers' rep

e, and both times the error had escaped his notice. His mind, self-hypnotized, had pas

inson on the basis of what these tags show. We haven't got that much seasoned uppers, nor anything like it. If you've made many more bre

ured Bob. "I'll t

e job. I can't get behind, checking over your work. This office

hed at t

on Collins. "You may be all right, for all

and snatched down th

for a moment had a strong impulse to retort, but his anger died. He saw that Collins was not for the moment thinking of him at all as a human being, as a personality--only as a piece of this great, swiftly moving machine, that would not run smoothly. The fact that he had come un

of irresolution, r

be all, the

the abstraction into

of course we can't take chance

not," said

f being kind to this helpless, attractive young fellow. "I learned un

right," said B

Already he was lost in the rapid computati